From the "driving me bananas" department: How many different ways are there to create a borderless PDF in A4 size from a bitmap image in A4 aspect ratio?
1) Let's do it the simple way, Linux is easy to use and gimpprint, now gutenprint, is the state of the Linux art: load image into gimp, click print. Annoyance #1: gimp fails to pick up on the A4 locale and one has to fix it all up explicitly. Annoyance deepens when the image can only be scaled up to 100%, and that those 100% are inside of what gimp thinks the printer can print within. A fat white margin results, plus the image being scaled down - it's a "fit within printable area", not a "fit into A4". OK, back to the hard way: 2) tiff2ps with a bunch of user-unfriendly options including something like -w8.2778 -h11.708 Nothing can be coaxed out of this but a tiny image in the bottom left corner of the page. 3) ImageMagick's convert Same as 2), though it has a more intelligable -page a4. However, a convert -page a4 -density 72 (supposedly the default is 72, with a jpeg that has all profile stuff stripped) finally yields to pressure and gives the desired result (which can then be turned into pdf). How is everyone else doing this? In particular, is there a quick and easy user-friendly way? Luckily vuescan scans straight from A4 paper to A4 pdf (and even picks the A4 automatically over the USwhatnot!), but that doesn't work so well with those bitmaps archived earlier. Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
